If you're following my music adventures, please be sure to check out this weekend's pop-up music festival in Chicago called Chillfest! I'll be performing at a few venues during the day on Saturday November 16, 2013 along with over 120+ of my fellow music makers in Chicago in the Wicker Park Bucktown neighborhood. You can find details here, and be sure to visit my music site to get my latest demos, videos, and musical odds and ends. Thanks for your support!
Friday, November 15, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
2013 Boston Marathon song "Brave in Boston"
This week I had two gigs in Chicago, and I had planned on playing a song I wrote in February about drone strikes called "Executive Order" -- but on Monday that all changed in an instant. I realized that my song was a bit graphic and the imagery it conveys was too close to what had just happened in Boston on that day, April 15th, when two brothers deployed terrible bombs at the finish line at the marathon.
In trying figure out what I was going to play in its place, I ended up writing down lyrics on Monday night to a song I wrote called "Brave in Boston" -- I ended up using some simple music, and played the first version of it the next day in Chicago at Uncommon Ground on Clark as part of the Chicago Songwriter Alliance. The song conveys the transformation that took place for so many people in those very shocking moments when a time of celebration turned to a time of tragic consequence and terror.
Over the following days I tweaked the song a bit, and ended up playing a version of it on Friday night at the Heartland Cafe (I opened for Cleveland songwriter Charlie Mosbrook) -- moments before I started my set that night news came that the second suspect had been captured alive. On Saturday I revised it again and recorded it on a handhelp MP3 recorder at home and posted it to SoundCloud.
You can hear a demo of my song "Brave in Boston" about the 2013 Boston Marathon here: https://soundcloud.com/simeonpeebler/brave-in-boston
Thursday, January 10, 2013
More Music Shows in Chicago
Hello and Happy New Year!
You can see a list of my upcoming performances here:
http://simeonpeebler.com/calendarshows/
Thanks for checking out my music (and find more of it here: http://www.simeonpeebler.com) and please say hello on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SimeonPeebler or on Twitter at @SimeonPeebler http://www.twitter.com/SimeonPeebler!
You can see a list of my upcoming performances here:
http://simeonpeebler.com/calendarshows/
Thanks for checking out my music (and find more of it here: http://www.simeonpeebler.com) and please say hello on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/SimeonPeebler or on Twitter at @SimeonPeebler http://www.twitter.com/SimeonPeebler!
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